The rumor had been floating around for a while, but after Oracle acquired SUN no one really expected them to still buy Virtual Iron. But they just did… Oracle has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software that enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualized data centers. The combination of [...]

Got a question today on how to change the licensing server from the Service Console or how to add the license server via a scripted install. Of course “vmware-vim-cmd” is the keyword here. If you want to use a license server you will need to use the first option, if you want to add a license file you will need [...]

This afternoon @Stevie_chambers published something on twitter on memory limits of vSphere VMs. This was a recap of a question asked on a VMware internal mailinglist, here’s what Steve posted: Why has a vSphere VM max mem 255GB? VMFS block size of 1MB = 256GB max – 0.4MB VM state = 255.6MB rounded down to 255GB – from Ole@VMware In [...]

After I wrote the licensing server post a couple of days back one of my colleagues(Thanks Horst!) was so kind to email me the following script. What it basically does is check every server for the availability of the license source. Of course it can be improved by adding for instance a check to see if the license service is [...]

I like trying out new stuff. That’s one of the reasons I upgraded my testing machine to Windows 7. Unfortunately the driver that is included with Windows 7 for the Intel 965 Mobile is far from perfect. Nasty side effects are: flickering taskbar, black boxes on random places of the screen, minimize / maximize / close buttons hidden, taskbar disappearing… [...]

As regular readers know I am a hardcore-punk fan, now on reading these posts(1, 2) by Microsoft a famous line from a legendary Dutch Hardcore band came to mind; “Will you fight or will you run?” I think Microsoft just expects their competitors to run or just join the “dark side”. Well it appears that this is not the route [...]

On twitter John Troyer retweeted a question a couple of days ago which basically came down to the following: When your VM which contains the license server goes down and has been down for longer then 14 days you will not be able to actually boot it up. This is because the grace period has expired. As a VMware PSO [...]